try setting in ControlPanel/Peripherals/Printers

the "Print system currently used" to "Generic UNIX LDP"

do you use CUPS?

i use cups and this option doesn't help then ;-)
rather strange i can't print out a test page from the web interface nor from kde-control (error media tray empty which is not true)
but 2 days before it works

but if you cannot even print from the cups-webinterface, then this is not a kde-problem ... please change the title of this bug

2 days before? ... hmm ... did you upgrade any foomatic pkgs or something like this? (i searched the db and found, that foomatic-pkgs are updated on 2004-03-02 ... can this maybe be the start date of your problems?)

oh yeah i tried another driver now it prints again from the web interface but kde is the same problem it hangs on print preview
and it cannot do print to ps nor pdf
i try older foomatic packages and tell you about it

try upgrading ghostscript and other related pkgs by hand (pacman -S ... and when asked to upgrade already uptodate-pkg, yes)

.. oh ... and try starting cups and the app that do not print right from console and watch the output (and post the errors, if you see any :-) )

www.google.de printing to pdf

konsole:
khtml (part): DONE: 614
kdeprint: kdeprint: registering 0x831783c, number of objects = 1
kdeprint: kdeprint: registering 0x84b689c, number of objects = 2
kdeprint: kdeprint: registering 0x8404d88, number of objects = 3
kdeprint: kdeprint: registering 0x84c6af8, number of objects = 4
kdeprint: kdeprint: registering 0x84cd844, number of objects = 5
kdeprint: kdeprint: registering 0x84bcde8, number of objects = 6
kdeprint: Checking for update possible
kdeprint: Starting async connect
kdeprint: Connection success, trying to send a request...
kdeprint: kdeprint: unregistering 0x84b689c, number of objects = 5
kdeprint: kdeprint: unregistering 0x84bcde8, number of objects = 4
kdeprint: kdeprint: unregistering 0x84cd844, number of objects = 3
kdeprint: kdeprint: status message: Initialisierung...
kdeprint: Resetting page size
kdeprint: ********************
kdeprint: app-khtml-printfriendly = true
kdeprint: app-khtml-printheader = true
kdeprint: app-khtml-printimages = true
kdeprint: kde-collate = Uncollate
kdeprint: kde-copies = 1
kdeprint: kde-creator = KDE 3.2.0 HTML Library
kdeprint: kde-current = 0
kdeprint: kde-docname = http://www.google.de/
kdeprint: kde-fullpage = 0
kdeprint: kde-isspecial = 1
kdeprint: kde-outputfilename = /home/tobias/print.pdf
kdeprint: kde-outputtofile = 1
kdeprint: kde-pageorder = Forward
kdeprint: kde-pageset = 0
kdeprint: kde-preview = 0
kdeprint: kde-printcommand =
kdeprint: kde-range =
kdeprint: kde-special-command = ps2pdf
kdeprint: kdeprint: status message: Erstellen der Druckdaten: Seite 1
khtml: printing: physical page width = 523 height = 794
khtml: printing: html page width = 523 height = 323
khtml: printing: margins left = 36 top = 24
khtml: printing: paper width = 523 height = 794
khtml: printing: scaled html width = 523 height = 778
kdeprint: kdeprint: status message: Senden der Daten an Drucker In Datei drucken (PDF)
kdeprint: kdeprint: print command: gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=$out{/home/tobias/print.pdf} -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -c .setpdfwrite -f '/tmp/kde-tobias/kdeprint_bNUwRpU8'
kdeprint: kdeprint: status message:
kdeprint: kdeprint: status message:
kdeprint: kdeprint: unregistering 0x831783c, number of objects = 2

textbox:
A print error occurred. Error message received from system:

gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=$out{/home/tobias/print.pdf} -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -c .setpdfwrite -f '/tmp/kde-tobias/kdeprint_bNUwRpU8' : execution failed with message:
Error: /invalidfon in findfon Operand stack: Helvetica-Uni-00 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- Helvetica Helvetica Font Helvetica 647091 H lvetica --nostringval-- Courier (Courier) Courier Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --no tringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_p sh 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nos ringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- %array_continue --nos ringval-- 5 3 %oparray_pop 6 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 9 4 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- -- ostringval-- Dictionary stack: --dict:1053/1417(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:170/200(L)-- --dict:17/17(ro)(G)-- -dict:1053/1417(ro)(G)-- Current allocation mode is local Last OS error: 2 Current file position is 42243 ESP Ghostscript 7.07. : Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

it's gs, that makes problems ... maybe you can try reinstalling it: pacman -S ghostscript

oh now it's alright i installed ghostscript again and now it works just fine
but i didn't do anything with ghostscript
with the last pacman -Syu something must went wrong
hm but now it's ok
perhaps some of the foomatic packages were defect
thank you for adding my cdrtools-package and your help
please close the bug

printing to pdf and ps works now
but printing a textfile doesn't work from kprinter

i deinstalled cups and all foomatic packages + kde
and reinstalled the packages now really everything works again as it should
don't know what was wrong
please close bug